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Pattern skin

PatternSkin provides a CSS based default look and feel for TWiki - flexible and W3C?-compliant. Its layout and color scheme are designed to provide a nice, clean and productive editing environment. For use in corporate or perhaps in personal websites it should be fairly easy to tune the looks or even create a PatternSkin-based new skin.

Screenshot

Creating your own look

Template customization

PatternSkinCustomization - how to configure page elements

Style sheet customization

PatternSkinCssCookbook - how to customize the visual style

Supported browsers

PatternSkin has been tested successfully on the following browsers:

• Windows
  • Internet Explorer 6.0, 5.5 (note: Explorer 5.0 is not supported: will function but shows visual quirks)
  • Mozilla/Firefox
• Mac OS X
  • Safari 2.0.3
  • Mozilla/Firefox 1.5 (note: Firefox 1.0 will show visual quirks)
• *nix
  • Mozilla/Firefox 1.5 (note: Firefox 1.0 will show visual quirks)

Installation

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this skin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the skin on the server where TWiki is running.

Note 2: PatternSkin is included with TWiki by default. Use the following instructions only if you are upgrading PatternSkin.

• Download the ZIP file from the Skin Home page (see below)
• Unzip PatternSkin.zip in your twiki installation directory
• Test if installed: /cwiki/bin/view/TWiki/PatternSkin?skin=pattern
• For skin activation see TWikiSkins

Troubleshooting

If you have set the SKIN variable setting to pattern and you still don